Christa Pike is back on her feet. The Tennessee death-row inmate — who survived two botched lethal-injection attempts — is walking again for the first time, her legal team said Thursday, in a remarkable turn in a case that drew global scrutiny of the state's execution protocol.
Attorney Stephen Ferrell told the BBC that Pike “is up and walking for the first time today, but just around the room, not very far,” while a spokesperson for attorney Randy Spivey told PEOPLE she has “taken a few steps.” The update comes as a judge granted a motion to preserve evidence from the botched execution, keeping the legal fight over what went wrong firmly alive.
Pike's survival made international headlines and intensified questions about Tennessee's lethal-injection procedures, coming just as the state carried out its next execution. Her case remains one of the most closely watched death-penalty battles in the country, with courts now weighing both the evidence-preservation fight and what comes next for Pike herself.
